Located 30km away from Dali Old City, Shaping is famous for their weekly morning market. It’s on every Monday from 9am to 2pm. Just take a bus go north from Dali (10 CNY one way), and you’ll see many little villages around Erhai Lake. Shaping is one of the small villages.
Dali is a worthwhile destination, but don’t forget to go out from the city center. There are small villages with old architectures just about one hour range. Easy to get there by bus or bike.
In the market, you’ll see many hill tribe people with their own traditional clothe and the basket. Oh the basket, I want one as my backpack! It’s so smartly designed. It distributes the weight. Also, it’s convenient for bus travel because the basket has legs, so you can just put your bag down in the middle of the bus. And it’s quite cute too. If I’m traveling in a short period, I would buy one but I cannot keep it. What a shame.
Enough about the basket…
It was an interesting market. And yes, there’s absolutely nothing to buy because we’re not farmers. But we bought some local fruits: apples, pears, and pineapples with a good price. One pineapple for 2 CNY (0.30 USD), what a deal!
Here are some photos from Shaping Monday market.
mmmm…that charcoal looks delicious 😉
Love the shots!
Thanks Stephen! It was a nice getaway from the little city. They have some characters!
I like all the different colours and textures!
Thanks Audrey! I did too. I didn’t know there’s that many spices they use. And all the people were very friendly. I like small town markets!
I think the bound pale thing is fat back rather than cheese.
You think so?
That looks like quite a high and remote elevation. It certainly cannot be easy for the vendors to get their goods to the market… The variety is amazing, no parts of the pig wasted; this reminds me of a trip I took to one of the Indonesian Islands, just south of Singapore. Great photos, the experiences you are gaining must be priceless!
Thanks James! Yes, no parts of Pig is going waste in China! This is about 1900m see level. I don’t know about this particular town, but Dali (30km away) is 1900m and I think this would be the same. It was very remote and only once a week market. Saw some good stuff there.
This is what normal market looks like in the provinces. All the products are first hand and fresh. Thanks for sharing this.. Good job!
Thanks Cley! I like to visit ramdon markets around the villages. It’s very refreshing. I’d miss these markets if I’m back to big cities.
Hey, Sister. how is ti going?
A few days ago, I got your postcard.
Wow, it seems like yummy. Especially, A big chunk of pigs and pig’s inside. 😀
This country is getting warmer, take care, sis. Talk to you later.
Good! Amazingly Chinese postal service takes a looooong time, to go to a neighbour country. Talk soon! Thanks for dropping by!
The basket looks great! I can understand why you covet it.
Are you sure that the picture of the noodle is actually noodles? It looks like plastic tubing split into half. Then again, it almost looks like a flat vermicelli.
I have already visited the beautiful place of China, but I never experience their market hour… Thanks for sharing this images, if I could reach China once again, I will visit this one…